[arch-general] Kali rt2800usb driver on Arch for wireshark tcp capture

[Fulcrum Mike]

On 1/11/2016 12:25 AM, Ivan wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Fulcrum Mike wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 1/10/2016 4:59 PM, Fulcrum Mike wrote:
>>> FYI Kali live system is also using rt2800usb driver and yet it worked
>>> fine. I'll use rtl8187 driver on Arch soon and see what happens. Regards
>>>
>>> On 1/10/2016 4:20 PM, Ivan wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Fulcrum Mike wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everybody
>>>>>
>>>>> I spent days trying to get my Alfa AWUS036H work with Wireshark on Arch
>>>>> Linux. It captured all sorts of fancy protocols, but no tcp. I booted
>>>>> Kali
>>>>> linux on the same PC and followed the same procedure for data capture
>>>>> and
>>>>> this time everything worked. I could see http requests to multiple wifi
>>>>> access points nearby.
>>>>>
>>>>> After some more googleing, I think the problem is with the rt2800usb
>>>>> driver
>>>>> on arch. I read somewhere that kali comes with a 'modified' wifi
>>>>> driver for
>>>>> capturing tcp data. I was wondering if its possible to somehow get
>>>>> kali's
>>>>> driver working on arch? any help would be appreciated!
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>> The Alfa AWUS036H should use rtl8187, not rt2800. Try it, and see.
>>>> I remember the Alfa card having issues with Arch a couple of years ago,
>>>> but i never got around to reporting the bugs...
>>
>> Can anybody here tell me how to make Arch use rtl8187 driver? Using
>> 'modprobe -r rt2800usb', I removed rt2800 driver and loaded rtl8187 module,
>> hoping that kernel would automatically switch to rtl8187 but it isn't
>> happening.  Regards.
>>
>
> Try blacklisting rt2800 via /etc/modprobe.d/ and reboot.
>

Upon blacklisting rt2800usb driver, the WiFi won't come up. 'lsusb -t' 
shows that there is no driver loaded for Alfa AWUS036H on boot. Later, I 
manually loaded rt2800usb module to get the wifi working. So no luck 
getting the module working with rtl8187 drivers.